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07/08/2008 |
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07/26/2008 |
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Life's Light and Shadow: Ron Price at...
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My literary activity on the world-wide-web is a personal and quite industrious enterprize. When I can find the time I am engaged in creating across this global internet a tapestry of poetry and prose....
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| Professional Area: |
Media/Journalism |
| Educational Level: |
Graduate Degree |
| Job Title: |
retired teacher |
| Company: |
self-employed |
| Company Website: |
http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/ |
| Previous Companies: |
primary school teacher, secondary school teacher, college teacher |
| Areas of Expertise: |
many subjects in the humanities and the social sciences |
| Current Status: |
Retired |
| My Blog, Websites, or Webpages: |
http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/ |
| Smoking: |
Never |
| Drinking: |
Never |
| Favorite Sports: |
Baseball |
| Current Status: |
Married |
| I'm Lookin For: |
Platonic friends |
| Height: |
5'11" - 6' (179 cm - 183 cm) |
| Weight: |
221 lbs - 230 lbs (101 Kg - 105 Kg) |
| Body Type: |
A Few Extra Pounds |
| Hair Color: |
Gray |
| Eye Color: |
Brown |
| Political Views: |
Moderate |
| Religious Beliefs: |
Spiritual-but not religious |
| Ethnicity: |
White/Caucasian |
| Languages: |
English |
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1. Sir Martin Frobisher School, Frobisher Bay(now Iqaluit), NWT, Canada,1967/8. 2. Cherry Valley Primary School, Cherry Valley, Ontario, 1969/70. 3. Picton Primary School, Picton, Ontario, Canada, 1970/1. 4. Whyalla Primary School, Whyalla, South Australia, 1971/2. 3.4.2 Secondary:
1. Queen Elizabeth Public School in Picton Ontario: 1970-71
-I taught grades 7 and 8 in this primary school in Ontario. In Australia this school would have been at the secondary level. 2. Eyre High School, Whyalla, South Australia, 1972/3. 3. Para Hills Secondary School, Para Hills, South Australia, 1973/4 4. Oakwood Education Trust, Launceston Campus, 2001. |
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| Reading and writing in the social sciences and humanities(the sub-list in these two general categories would be too long to post here; for example: philosophy and religion, history and psychology, sociology and media studies, etc.) Other specific interests and activities include: walking, sleeping, eating and drinking, breathing properly, my family, my health, my wife’s garden and even some of my domestic chores. Beautiful things: buildings and people, nature and objets d’art; ideas and some items in and of the print and electronic media. |
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| I have made a list of my favorite 100 movies, movies I have watched since 1948, that is in the last 60 years. I have taken a random sample of these 100 and listed them here:
29. Mystic River
30. Gone With the Wind
31. Apocalypse Now
32. Birdman of Alcatraz
33. Terminator
34. The Passion of Christ
35. Films About: The 18th Century
-The Devil's Disciple, etc.
36. From Here to Eternity
37. Gunfight At the OK Corral
38. Lolita
39. Paths of Glory
40. Brave Heart
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That's all folks! |
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| In the three year period June 2002 to May 2005, I compiled periodically a list of my favorite music and bands. It was an attempt to define, to give expression to, to list what has become for me a vast sea of pleasureable sounds produced in a number of genres of music. My first memories of listening to music were in about 1948, although I was exposed to music right from the word go in 1944 by two parents who played the piano. I would post the list here, but it is too long. It is a short list of two dozen bands and over 60 years of musical experience, musical pieces I have enjoyed from a longer list of music that gave me pleasure, but it is, as I say, obviously too long to include here. |
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| Perhaps how much one reads is as important as what one reads, although one would not want to press this point too far. Given the fact that we all have different tastes, perhaps the essential question or comment under "favorite books" is not “what one has read” but “how much” and “when.” I offer this as a tangential remark for this part of the site. It is impossible for me to make an accurate record or even a reasonable guesstimation of what might be called my favorite books since, say 1958, some 50 years, from puberty to the early years of late adulthood that is from the age of 13 to 63. |
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- EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL ROLES: 1944-2008
1999-2008-Writer/Poet/Retired Teacher: George Town Tasmania
2002-2005-Program Presenter, City Park Radio, Launceston
1999-2004-Tutor and/or President: George Town School for Seniors Inc
1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies and Human Services West Australian Department of Training
1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies and Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in South Hedland, WA.
1982-1985 -Adult Educator, Open College of Tafe, Katherine, NT
1981 -Maintenance Scheduler, Renison Bell, Zeehan, Tasmania 1980-Unemployed: Bi-Polar Disability
1979 -Editor, External Studies Unit, Tasmanian CAE; Youth Worker, Resource Centre Association, Launceston;
Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Tasmanian CAE; Radio Journalist ABC, Launceston
1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities, Ballarat CAE, Ballarat
1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies, Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill, Victoria
1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies, Tasmanian CAE, Launceston
1972-1973 -High School Teacher, South Australian Education Department
1971 Primary School Teacher, Whyalla SA, Australia 1969-1971 Primary School Teacher, Prince Edward County Board of Education, Picton, Ontario, Canada 1969 Systems Analyst, Bad Boy Co. Ltd., Toronto Ontario
1967-68 -Community Teacher, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Frobisher Bay(Iqaluit), NWT, Canada
1959-67 -Summer jobs from grade 9 to end of university
1949-1967 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni:1963-1966, Windsor T’s College: 1966/7.
1944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario.
2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA(as of: 2008)
I have been married for 41 years. My wife is a Tasmanian, aged 60. We’ve had 3 children: ages in 2008-42, 38 and 31. I am 64, a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written 3 books--all available on the internet. I retired from full-time teaching in 1999, from part-time teaching in 2003 and from volunteer/casual teaching/work in 2005 after 35 years in classrooms. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 49 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 225 lbs, eyes/hair-brown, Caucasian. See my website for more details at: http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/ or go the google search engine and type: RonPrice(no space), Pioneering RonPrice, RonPrice Poetry, RonPrice Bahá’í, RonPrice History,(philosophy, religion, media studies, politics, inter alia)--for additional writings.
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| By the time my first memories were taking form in this earthly life, in 1947 and 1948, radio was in the first years of its second quarter century and TV was just starting out on its journey for the masses after twenty years of technological development.
My parents were in their teens and twenties when they listened to their first radio programs in the 1920s; my grandfather was in his fifties back in that roaring decade of the 1920s. These two mediums brought an immense quantity of historical impressions into my life and the lives of millions in the fifty-seven years that constitute my present memory-bank: 1948-2008. I have had a TV for 38 of those 50 years and enjoyed 100s of programs. |
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| Many from the history of the western intellectual tradition: its religion and philosophy, its social sciences and humanities. I may be more specific at a later date. |
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| Here is one quote among dozens I might add. Perhaps at a later date I might select a half a dozen to add here.
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With fire We test the gold and with gold We test Our servants.-Baha'u'llah |
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